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Sebastiano Venier first International partner To the attention of Norm Manly, President YMTA Youth Maritime Training Association Dear Sir, As the Principal of the Technical Nautical Institute ‘Sebastiano Venier’, Venice, Italy, I am pleased to know from Ms Annavaleria Guazzieri, a teacher of English at our school, that she has come into contact with YMTA and that she has received positive feedback from you. She introduced me to your web site and read and translated your mission and vision statements. Together we looked at some of the many projects your are working at with different schools in Washington State. I am very proud of Ms Guazzieri being able to establish this initial link with your association, which has a longstanding tradition of supporting educational and maritime programs at different levels. Thanks to your help, Ms Guazzieri has come into contact with at least two other schools in you area and at the moment she has exchanged e-mails with two teachers interested in establishing a school correspondence link. She has also been contacted by the Nautical College, London, and hopes to establish a link with a school in Norway. As you know she is working on a project on whaling, which includes Art, Mythology, Geography, History, Literature, as a means to improve her students’ abilities in the English language, but also as a way to look at different cultures and aspects of history and oceanography. The project has been approved by the school board and by the teachers’ assembly and is now part of our curriculum. I am therefore happy to support and to pass on to you her request to publish a link with our school project on your web site, which will include a brief description of the project, a photo of the class involved, theteacher’s biodata and materials (reports, essays, letters) produced by her students. I understand you would do this on a voluntary basis as part of your educational program as a non-profit membership organization. I do hope the possibility of establishing a class link will become concrete and that our students will be able to work together, share opinions, discuss nautical issues, and develop an interest and respect for each other’s country, customs and traditions. Once again thank you very much for your contribution in getting this project started. IL DIREGENTE SCOLASTICO
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